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Author levkivskyi
Recipients docs@python, levkivskyi, ncoghlan, steven.daprano
Date 2017-03-18.13:39:06
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Message-id <1489844346.41.0.468987184655.issue24796@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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It looks like it is safe to just remove this line from docs. This code

>>> x = 1
>>> def f():
...     global x
...     del x
... 
>>> f()
>>> x

Works as expected, i.e. raises NameError. (The same happens for nonlocal but with UnboundLocalError.)
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2017-03-18 13:39:06levkivskyisetrecipients: + levkivskyi, ncoghlan, steven.daprano, docs@python
2017-03-18 13:39:06levkivskyisetmessageid: <1489844346.41.0.468987184655.issue24796@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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